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Category: Quotations

Posted on December 12, 2016December 12, 2016

“It is best to win without fighting.”—Sun-Tzu, Chinese strategist, 544 BC – 496 BC

Posted on December 11, 2016December 11, 2016

“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.”—Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher

Posted on December 10, 2016December 10, 2016

“Lazy people are always looking for something to do.”—Luc DeClapiers, French writer, 1715-1747

Posted on December 9, 2016December 10, 2016

“All is flux, nothing stays still.”—Heraclitus, Greek philosoher

Posted on December 8, 2016November 5, 2020

“True history is the enemy of reverence.”—Simon Schama, British historian, 1945-

Posted on December 7, 2016November 3, 2021

“War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.”—Anacreon, Greek lyric poet, c. 582–c. 485 BC

Posted on December 6, 2016December 6, 2016

“So is a word better than a gift.”—Apocrypha

Posted on December 5, 2016December 5, 2016

“Things are seldom what they seem; skim milk masquerades as cream.”—W.S. Gilbert (in Gilbert & Sullivan’s ‘HMS Pinafore’)

Posted on December 4, 2016April 24, 2020

“Familiarity breeds contempt.”—Aesop, Greek fabulist, 620-564 BC

Posted on December 3, 2016December 3, 2016

“Nothing happens next. This is it.”—Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist

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